‘The managing director of Australia’s largest brick maker has predicted a soft landing for the nation’s housing market even if it has finished “running along the top”, with low interest rates and robust migration levels providing a solid buffer. Lindsay Partridge, who has been at the helm of Brickworks since 1999, said lower auction clearance rates and longer times on the market for many properties were a clear sign that the eastern seaboard in particular had passed the peak of this cycle.’